Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

Seeing What's Next is a framework for predicting industry winners and losers. Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data, and can lead to costly errors in judgment. Internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners, Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth, present this guide for predicting outcomes in the evolution of any industry.

Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs

People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran company-builder Norm Brodsky, there's a mentality that helps street- smart entrepreneurs solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise. Brodsky shares his hard-earned wisdom every month in Inc. magazine, in the hugely popular "Street Smarts" column he cowrites with Bo Burlingham. Now they've adapted their best advice into a comprehensive guide for anyone running a small business.

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

In Michael Bungay Stanier's
The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how - by saying less and asking more - you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.

Made to Stick

Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas (business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others) struggle to make their ideas "stick". In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds draw their power from the same six traits.

Ready, Fire, Aim : Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat

If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted - all while getting paid very well - would you take it? Self-made multimillionaire and best-selling author Michael Masterson did, and with
Ready, Fire, Aim he'll show you how to do the same.

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives - from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture - can be understood as the result of a few long-term accelerating forces.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.

Get Out of Your Own Way: How to Overcome Any Obstacle in Your Life

You think you know what you want in life. You've tried to achieve those things. But if you still don't have them, the culprit may be closer than you think. In this perspective-altering program, the world-renowned Pitbull of Personal Development(tm), Larry Winget, exposes the things you are doing right now to unknowingly prevent your own success in the most important areas of your life.

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Popular blogger Cal Newport reveals the new key to achieving success and true meaning in professional life: the ability to master distraction. Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of deciding what deserves their attention the most. When Cal Newport coined the term deep work on his popular blog, Study Hacks, in 2012, he found the concept quickly hit a nerve.

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Int'l Edit.)

Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their successes over and over? People like Martin Luther King, Jr.; Steve Jobs; and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. Their natural ability to start with why enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

This is a book about 10 "Great Ideas". Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations - to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives.

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use,
The Creative Habit provides you with 32 practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable 35-year career.

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

As Al Ries and Jack Trout - the world-renowned marketing consultants and best-selling authors of
Positioning - note, you can build an impressive airplane, but it will never leave the ground if you ignore the laws of physics, especially gravity. Why then, they ask, shouldn’t there also be laws of marketing that must be followed to launch and maintain winning brands? In
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Ries and Trout offer a compendium of 22 innovative rules for understanding and succeeding in the international marketplace.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Since its release in 1949,
The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In this book, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

Dr Nik Jewell says:"A triumph of over generalisation and reductionism"

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Persuading, Convincing and Influencing Others

In this new book from the best-selling author of Drive, Dan Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales skills in every area of our lives and identifies the three personal qualities and four essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes and analysis instead of exhortation, Dan builds on his own sales experience and on the profiles of some of the world's best salespeople - and makes us look again at our own sales skills.

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

In
Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share hard-hitting Navy SEAL combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life. With riveting firsthand accounts of making high-pressure decisions as Navy SEAL battlefield leaders, this audiobook is equally gripping for leaders who seek to dominate other arenas.

Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us

A book that will change how you think and transform how you live.Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people – at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world.

Publisher's Summary

How do great managers inspire top performance in employees? How do they generate enthusiasm, unite disparate personalities to focus on a common mission, and drive teams to achieve ever-higher goals?

More than a decade ago, The Gallup Organization combed through its database of more than one-million employee and manager interviews to identify the elements most important in sustaining workplace excellence. These elements were revealed in the 1999 best-seller First, Break All the Rules. 12: The Elements of Great Managing is that management classic's long-awaited sequel. It follows great managers as they implement the 12 elements to turn around a failing call center, save a struggling hotel, improve patient care in a hospital, maintain production through power outages, and successfully face a host of other challenges in settings around the world.

Gallup's study now includes 10 million employee and manager interviews spanning 114 countries and conducted in 41 languages. In 12, authors Rodd Wagner and James K. Harter weave the latest Gallup insights with recent discoveries in the fields of neuroscience, game theory, psychology, sociology, and economics. Written for managers and employees of companies large and small, 12 explains what every company needs to know about creating and sustaining employee engagement.

What the Critics Say

"This wonderfully documented book provides a clear case for the elements that enhance performance in organizations. Implementing the recommendations in
12 will most certainly increase the productivity of your employees." (Ed Diener, Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois)

This book is based on the Gallup managements groups survey which is the basis for the book "First, break all the rules" by Marcus Buckingham. This book takes the 12 questions from the previous book and then gives them life through examples. I won't detail the 12 as Gallup have asked reviewers not to but it's safe to say that their basis are solid and since applying them to my own business we have seen a vast drop in staff turnover, absenteeism and improvement in our bottom line.

This, the first book by Gallup and the book "strengths Finder 2.0" are a series of books that I would recommend to any manager looking to improve their management and leadership skills.

I really liked this book, but I didn't realize until after I bought it and was listening to it that it was the "abridged" version. I had to read this book for class and it would have been nicer to have the option of buying the unabridged version.

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sam

Anchorage, AK, United States

14/05/12

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"Not just a rehash...they have added eggs"

The book started off feeling like another rehash of first break all the rules. but soon evolved into something more useful. Each point is well documented and specfic tactics and suggestions are brought out to provide useful tools for implemetation. Implementation of the recommendatiosn will almost certainly enhance your operations and create a better more dynamic working environment.

Each point is brought out in short easily digestable portions that leave you satisfied but wanting just a bit more.

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Amazon Customer

06/03/11

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"recommended"

This book really cut to the chase of the top 12 principles of the making of a great manager. It was very useful and was presented in a reasonable length of time.

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Erin Brookes

22/11/17

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"Poor Examples and Interpretation"

While I enjoyed the narrator, I felt the book missed the point. It glorified the overwork of personnel when all the data shows that peak employee happiness and productivity is met at 35 hours worked.

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Paul

24/08/17

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"consise"

This book was short and sweet. Full of rich data with stories that frame the data in an elaborative way.

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Grant

25/07/17

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"Great for leaders"

Anyone in charge of leading a group of people should read And take to heart the lessons contained here

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Joshua Wilson

08/05/17

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"Not just another "managers guide to the universe""

I've read a lot of books looking for this one. It uses actual data to reinforce what you know in your gut to be true, that taking care of people is the best way to "manage" them.

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Erin M. Naftali

New York, NY United States

30/07/15

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"Terrific resource for personal development"

The book was clear, insightful and very well written. It provided direction and usable information that can be put into practice immediately. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Mark

WELLINGTON, New Zealand

16/11/12

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"Brilliant advice for leaders"

Fantastic tips of what to monitor if you manage a team. Rooted in research with good stories to illustrate why it is so important. If you're a manager then you must read this book.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Eric Z Ayers

04/08/16

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"A lot of practical advice"

a lot of practical advice and anecdotes I could relate to. backes up by extensive research.

0 of 2 people found this review helpful

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